A história começa numa sexta-feira de novembro de 1869 com um diálogo entre Camilo e Rita. Camilo nega-se veementemente a acreditar na cartomante e sempre desaconselha Rita de maneira jocosa. A cartomante está caracterizada neste conto como uma charlatã, destas que falam tudo o que serve para todo mundo. É um personag...
Ao longo da história da humanidade poucos documentos resistiram tanto ao tempo, mantiveram-se extraordinariamente tão atuais e influenciaram tantas pessoas quanto esta obra. Em mais de 160 anos de existência este livro permanece tão amado e odiado como se tivesse sido produzido neste momento. Um clássico da história p...
The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks o...
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia] in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature; th...
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal 'The Russian Messenger' in twelve monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years o...
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
